Jake Fey has represented the 27th District since 2013, and he came to Olympia after a long career built around energy, transit, and public service. He directed Washington State University’s alternative-energy and energy-efficiency program for nearly two decades, served on the Sound Transit and Pierce Transit boards and the Pierce County public health board, and chaired clean-air efforts at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Before the Legislature, he served on the Tacoma City Council and as the city’s Deputy Mayor.

That background shows up in a record defined by big, durable investments. As Chair of the House Transportation Committee, he led negotiations to pass Move Ahead Washington in 2022, a historic 16-year, $16 billion package pairing infrastructure preservation with record funding for transit, hybrid-electric ferries, and active transportation like walking and biking. He drove the earlier Connecting Washington package that brought light rail to Tacoma, sponsored groundbreaking climate and clean-energy laws targeting greenhouse gas emissions and holding oil-spill polluters accountable, and wrote the Homeless Student Stability and Opportunity Gap Act to support students without stable housing. He has also championed prison-to-postsecondary education pathways to cut recidivism and measures to expand affordable childcare for working families.

Fey takes the long view on the work of governing, making decisions today that shape what gets left to the next generation, and he has spent his career mentoring young people through the Boys and Girls Club, First Place for Children, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. He’s a steady, results-driven legislator who has earned another term in the 27th.

Endorsements include House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards, the Washington State Labor Council, Washington Conservation Action, the Washington Education Association PAC, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, Transportation for Washington, UFCW 3000, and the Washington State Nurses Association.

Chanjolee “Joe” Bushnell is Tacoma’s Deputy Mayor, running for the House in the 29th Legislative District. A lifelong Tacoman and Marine Corps combat veteran, he was elected to the city council in 2021 as Washington State’s first Cambodian-American councilmember and was chosen by his colleagues to serve as Deputy Mayor for 2026.

His record is grounded in local governance and community service. A longtime small-business advocate, he worked on behalf of local businesses through the Washington Hospitality Association in Pierce County and served as a Travel Tacoma board member and on the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Food Advisory Board. Before his council tenure, he chaired the South Tacoma Neighborhood Council and volunteered with neighborhood cleanups, tree-planting projects, and Toys for Tots. His legislative platform centers on three priorities: affordability for working families squeezed by rising costs, universal healthcare so no family loses coverage based on employer or income, and better-resourced community safety through mental health and addiction treatment.

Bushnell casts himself as a servant leader who believes the highest-impact change happens at the local level and wants to carry that bottom-up orientation to Olympia. He’s a pragmatic local official with a commanding electoral base in his district and a coalition that stretches across the Democratic establishment, labor, and business.

Endorsements include Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, State Auditor Pat McCarthy, Tacoma Mayor Anders Ibsen, former Mayor Victoria Woodards, State Representatives Jake Fey and Dan Bronoske, a near-complete slate of current and former Tacoma councilmembers, the Tacoma firefighters (IAFF Local 31) and police (IUPA Local 6), Teamsters Local 117, the Tacoma-Pierce County Association of Realtors, VoteVets, and New Politics.